Show simple item record

dc.contributor.advisorChowdhury, Rukhsana Rahim
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Al-Kafia
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-05T05:21:21Z
dc.date.available2017-04-05T05:21:21Z
dc.date.copyright2016
dc.date.issued2015-08
dc.identifier.otherID 13363006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10361/7997
dc.descriptionThis thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2016.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (page 36-38).
dc.description.abstractThis paper looks at two essays, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), of Virginia Woolf to study the position of English women living in the late nineteenth to first half of the twentieth century. These essays provide a clear glimpse into the socio-economic disparity of the men and women of her society. Both of these texts look at the contemporary debates around feminism. In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf discussed the conflicting and discriminating situation that women faced if they pursued a writing career. Woolf declared through her essay that a woman must possess her own money and property and only in this way will they get their freedom. In this work, Woolf raised her voice against male dominance as a feminist for the first time and tried to establish the feminist goal of changing the society and the world into a place where the male and the female voices will be equally valued. Through the essay, Three Guineas, Woolf tried to relate the issues of war with feminism because she wanted to express how far the lives of women were affected by the war. She also analyzed women's position in their society mostly at a time when the country was approaching war and discussed how far women could help the country in such critical times. She encouraged an idea of far-reaching and independent political action in which women will form a society as outsiders in order to challenge the rise of Fascism and the implication of war.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAl-Kafia Islam
dc.format.extent38 pages
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBRAC Universityen_US
dc.rightsBRAC University thesis are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
dc.subjectVirginia Woolfen_US
dc.subjecten_US
dc.titleLooking at Virginia Woolf: women and societyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of English and Humanities, BRAC University
dc.description.degreeM.A. in English


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record